Patricia Anderson, Author at Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.

While Western Europe’s 17th century was disfigured by both religious wars and wars of territorial ambition, Holland a land reclaimed from …

The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis book review

For the comfortable middle class of the western world, politics is usually conscripted for a verbal tournament. It’s rarely a …

The ancient Greeks had a word for nature in its idealised form: Arcadia. It embodied the idea of rustic perfection …

A fizzing time-capsule has landed on our shores courtesy of our northern hemisphere cousins, the Scots. Director Michael Brand’s negotiations …

The groundswell of interest world-wide in artefacts from our prehistoric past, reveals our shared humanity at a time when no …

In Spring the pulse quickens and the sap rises, regardless of whether you’re a fieldmouse, an almond tree or an …

What does it say about the Archibald Prize when one of the most arresting portraits is hanging in the Wynne …

Cast your eye around these rooms reader, and ask yourself “Why would the Art Gallery of NSW need $400 million …

The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt were busier than our modern lot — less bloodthirsty too. History has shown us that gods mutate …

On April 21 Sotheby’s New York auctioned an internally flawless, D colour, 100.20 carat emerald-cut diamond (pictured above). It sold …